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Yak Sik is a delicious Korean sticky rice dessert, but it’s $6 for a small rectangle. The cost is partially the result of the expensive additions of chestnuts, pine nuts and dates. Regardless, $6 is enough for me to make my own version.

There are a few yaksik recipes online and I used kimchmari’s yaksik recipe as a baseline. Her version is an impressive 4 of rice cup version, but yaksik is highly perishable and I needed only enough to replace the supermarket portion.

To use an Instant Pot, I needed a sticky rice recipe. Fortunately, pressurecookrecipe’s sticky rice recipe looked solid. Plus it offered no pre-soak time for the rice.

So combining the two recipes, I have the following yaksik recipe with an Instant Pot.

Ingredients

200g sweet rice

170g water

70g brown sugar

1 tbs soy sauce

1 tbs sesame oil

1/4 tsp cinnamon powder

Chestnut, raisins, pine nuts

Instructions

Set up Instant Pot for steaming, 1″ water and steamer rack.

In a bowl, place 200g sweet and 170g water. Put on steamer rack and set Instant Pot to Manual (HP) for 12 min.

While Instant Pot is working, make the sauce by combining the brown sugar, soy sauce, sesame oil and brown sugar.

Not bread related as I’m deviating. Need a place to log my experiments in making Khao Man Gai with an Instant Pot and this blog is allows me to share and reflect on the process.

Version 1:

2 cups of jasmin rice

2 whole leg and thigh

2 cups chicken broth

1′ ginger, peeled and chopped

5 gloves garlic, chopped

2 tbs salted fermented soy beans

2 tbs white vinegar

2 tbs dark soy sauce

1 jalapeño pepper

Set Instant Pot to sauté

Cook chicken skin side down 5 min, flip and cook 5 more min. Traditional recipe use poached chicken but given this first attempt thought that braising would be safest. Remove and set aside.

Sauté 1/2 the ginger and garlic until fragrant, about 30 seconds. Add all rice and sauté for 2 min.

Add to chicken stock and top with chicken. Set Instant Pot to Manual for 4 min.

While Instant Pot is working hard, make the sauce by combining the rest of the ginger and garlic with salted soy beans, dark soy sauce, white vinegar, and jalapeño (to taste).

After pressure cooking is complete, rest for 10 minutes then release. The chicken registered 190 degrees F so perhaps the braise is not necessary.

Overall, this is a decent version. Rice was individually grained and fragrant from the ginger and garlic. Pandan leaf would be nice addition though. The chicken is fine, but not tender. Very much like a braised chicken.